Iwanaga M
Department of Behavioral Sciences, Faculty of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Hiroshima University, Japan.
Percept Mot Skills. 1995 Aug;81(1):67-71. doi: 10.2466/pms.1995.81.1.67.
Since people tend to prefer musical tempi ranging from 70 to 100 beats per minute, cyclic physiological response like heart rate is considered on of the factors affected by tempo preference. The present study aimed to examine the relationship between preferred tempi and heart rate. Subjects were instructed to find their favorite tempi while their hart rates were being measured. The presented tone stimulus was 440 Hz, 60 dB pressure of pure tone, and the presented tempo varied from 10 to 300 cycles per minute. The relationship between heart rate and preferred tempo was examined to calculate the density function of ratios of preferred tempi to heart rate. This density function indicated that preferred tempi were distributed mostly one, one and a half, and two times as fast as heart rate. This finding indicated preferred tempi had a simple harmonic relationship to heart rate.
由于人们倾向于喜欢每分钟70至100拍的音乐节奏，像心率这样的周期性生理反应被认为是受节奏偏好影响的因素之一。本研究旨在探讨偏好节奏与心率之间的关系。受试者在测量心率时被要求找出他们最喜欢的节奏。呈现的音调刺激为440赫兹、60分贝声压的纯音，呈现的节奏从每分钟10至300个周期变化。研究心率与偏好节奏之间的关系以计算偏好节奏与心率比值的密度函数。该密度函数表明偏好节奏大多分布在心率的一倍、一点五倍和两倍快的速度上。这一发现表明偏好节奏与心率存在简单的谐波关系。
